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by LargoLasskhyfv
186 days ago
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> but by the time of the coexistence with 386 the 286 became the cheap option, so its motherboards never had cache memory Not true. I vaguely remember servicing systems with chipsets from OPTI(only 2 large ones) having it. IIRC those were funtional(not exact) clones of Chips&Technologies NEAT(4 to 5 large chips), later shrunken to one by SCAT (Single Chip AT). Also in times when the 386 ran at 33Mhz, or even at 40 if made by AMD, Compaq introduced 386SX systems with cache, and I remember wondering "why, oh why?". Talk about overengineering... |
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